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Sanchez did nothing! Not in GC! No full house I'm afraid. I had Ulissi so no full house for me either! but still did well enough I think. At least 180 I should think!

1245715 on stage. 1234 GC. Plus points for Didier and Txurruka. Better last stage than I thought! Been a good race with something a bit unexpected at the end! Now there's less doping the natural advantages of the Columbians are beginning to show! Can't beat training at altitude when you are young and are genetically predisposed towards using oxygen efficiently! I really thought Porte had it in the bag but the TT suited the climbers with only Martin doing really well!

Hmm, I always thought that the road speed limit was the road speed limit, and applied to everyone using the road. I don't see why you should need a speedometer to have a speed limit applied to you. The law says the limit is X, and you have to stay under X. If you go above X, you cop the penalty. It is up to the individual to figure out if they are over X or not, and if they get it wrong, they pay the penalty. If I snap the needle off the speedo in my car I am not going to try and get off the 60mph in a 20mph zone charges because I didn't know how fast I was going...
Useful to know it doesn't apply to bikes, but I will still follow it unless the circumstances are exceptional.

Where did Sanchez finish ? Only need him to score to get a full house again.

According to list above i've got 2,4,5,7,8,9,10 + txurruka and Sanchez.

1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15

Having known NOTHING and being on the road all week, I got into bed last night and powered up my tablet, picked a team for today having 10 transfers, I could switch the whole lot. I trusted the "popular" riders and ended up with

Carlos Alberto Betancurt
Richie Porte
Alberto Contador
Nairo Quintana
Simon Spilak
Sergio Luis Henao
Samuel Sanchez
Amets Txurruka
Pieter Weening

Got 7 out of the top 10 on the stage and 1-7 on GC

PLEASE give me a stage win

Most of my transfers were poor, was right to drop Contador but should have kept Peraud, also should have brought in Intxausti/Spilak rather than Malori/Castroviejo who were disappointing.

Oh, well, cracking race right to the finish.

Henao doing well! He can TT!

Got

Martin
Castroviejo
Quintana
Henao
Porte
Spilak
Ulissi
Didier
Txurruka

Swapped Contador and Betancurt for Martin and Castroviejo, who hasn't done great!

Quintana going to win!

Echoing the comments of the others, learn to ride in a bunch first. I have done 5 IMs, plus lots of half IMs and I don't know how many sprint and olympic distance races. That is, a lot more triathlons than a lot of people who call themselves triathletes. I call myself a cyclist first though, and last year I deliberately stopped bike training with my tri club simply because although a lot of them are strong on the bike they almost universally had terrible skills. All over the road, unable to hold a wheel, surging and overlapping the whole time, oblivious to what was going on around them and generally presenting a danger to everyone in the bunch and everyone else on the road. Now I only ride with cyclists or the triathletes who know how to ride safely in a bunch.

Best way to earn to ride in a bunch is also as the others said, join a cycling club, go on the bunch rides. You will start of being better at TTs and terrible at crits, because you won't be used to the accelerations. That changes though, find the appropriate grade and when you are ready, get out and race them all! I look forward to seeing you there.

Current top 10 :-
1. Martin (Omega) 35:05
2. Peraud (Ag2r) a 51
3. Talansky (Garmin) a 1:08
4. Monfort (RadioShack) a 1:28
5. Velits (Omega) a 1:30
6. Castroviejo (Movistar) a 1:36
7. Kangert (Astana) a 1:39
8. Herrada (Movistar) a 1:39
9. Busche (RadioShack) a 1:52
10. Malori (Lampre) a 1:53